This berry is the most popular and common in gardens. It is hard to imagine summer cottage or the garden in the village without a green, fragrant bushes currant. And about all the benefits of berries and leaves, even children know.
Many people think that culture is not difficult to grow, and it is not necessary to apply any - that efforts and thus lose a large percentage of the yield.
The most common mistakes
1. Currant does not need watering
The misconception that the plant lacks rainwater and further watering is not necessary.
Lack of water in the soil affects the growth of the bush, ovaries education will be much less, and that and grow - will be thick-skinned. Watering is carried out 3 times during the summer season.
№1 The first ten days of June in the formation of ovaries.
№2 is carried out in the period of ripening.
№3 On completion of harvesting berries, in this period begin to form buds future.
2. It is not necessary to make fertilizer
If you do not perform this procedure, the soil under the plant quickly loses its beneficial properties and, accordingly, the plant does not receive the necessary minerals for growth.
Nitrogen fertilizer is applied in the first period of the summer.
Phosphorus and potassium are added after harvesting berries.
Once in two years fertilize organic currants.
3. Not made of soil mulching
Mulch prevents the evaporation of moisture, the germination of weeds. If under the bush there is no such a protective layer, respectively, dries the soil, and weeds pulled out of the ground all the trace elements.
In the spring you need to sprinkle the ground layer of peat, sawdust. Layer should not be thicker than 6 cm.
4. Not produced pruning bushes
In this case the overgrowth bush excess shoots, shoots with fresh ovaries not enough light, which leads to a small yield, small berries and development of diseases.
Bushes culture begin to cut immediately after planting. Pruned branches that exist until 3 - developed buds.
A year later, in the fall, then select three healthy escape, all the excess is cut off at the base.
All of the following year, the bush is cut under the scheme - from new overgrown choose 4 developed the escape, the rest is truncated. Within 5 years it will form fruiting shrub.
5. No processing is carried out by treatment of the diseases and insects
In nature there are no plants that "sidestep" insects and various diseases. Therefore, the procedure timely obrabatyvaniya plants included in the mandatory care currants. Otherwise, you can not just remain without fruit, but without bush.
It is better to exercise all due procedures as follows:
- in March, until the kidney: processing plants copper sulfate solution (3%) or ferrous sulfate (5%);
- the period of appearance of swelling and kidney: delete all threads with large buds (vzdutost) and burned;
- the appearance of flower buds: Bordeaux processing liquid;
- after picking berries: Bordeaux fluid processing.
When all of these actions, the plant will not only delight the sweet berries, but also aromatic leaves.